. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. APRIL, 1894 7. THE difficulty of clearly estimating the possible cut that may come from a forest of standing timber has been a subject of frequent comment among lumber- men. It is true that woodmen have developed the faculty of calculation in this respect in a very high degree, but their work can hardly yet take a position among the exact sciences. In illustration of this fact cases are constantly coming before us showing how wide of the mark the cleverest expert
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. APRIL, 1894 7. THE difficulty of clearly estimating the possible cut that may come from a forest of standing timber has been a subject of frequent comment among lumber- men. It is true that woodmen have developed the faculty of calculation in this respect in a very high degree, but their work can hardly yet take a position among the exact sciences. In illustration of this fact cases are constantly coming before us showing how wide of the mark the cleverest experts will sometimes be. In connection with the several lumber sales that have taken place in our own province within the past year or two, we have known timber-lookers to have gone forth to spy out the land, and reported certain limits to be worth certain figures. Others, believed to be equally shrewd and knowing, have gone over the same ground and fixed up a widely different estimate of the supposed quantity of standing timber. Added to these instances, I learned a little time ago of a Michi- gan case that goes to confirm all that has been said of the uncertainty of these estimates. Louis Sands, of that state, bought last summer a pieee of pine land, supposed to contain on an estimate 13,000,000 feet, for which he paid $74,000. It is now conceded that this track will cut 16,000,000 feet, and yet others who looked over the ground with a view to purchasing could not find over 6,000,000, much less 13,000,000 feet. Those who are disposed to laugh at the frequent estimates that we get of the quantity of standing timber in the leading pine provinces and states can point with a good deal of force to such instances as I have here cited, and query, What do you know about it ? * * * * When in the north country a few days ago I learned that Howry & Sons, the large Michigan lumbermen, who are carrying on extensive operations in the Georgian Bay territory, had purchased the old S. G. Smit
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